Mum's Monday: The Mummy (2017)

This film is a remake of the 1999 version, that one, to me was more real, smoother in the running of it and the 2 main characters got the job done. The Mummy was a male and the character having visions of the past was female. In this, later version, we see a role reversal, The Mummy, Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) is female and Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) seeing images of the past, is male.

The film starts, based around the London Cross Rail construction, this is a good idea, and who knows what they did find. In the film the rail got re-routed.  It makes me wander, how many more secrets, are yet to be found. It is interesting to watch and think about.

After a promising start, the film scenes, jumps to ones in the past in Egypt. This shows that it is only recently where inherited power is passed down to a female heir, unless a male child is born and, although younger, they are first in line.

Now back to the present, Nick and Sgt. Vail (Jake Johnson) are in Iraq, in the Middle East, during the conflict. The stunts in this part are well done and flows smoothly as the building separates and collapses.

The plane crash seems a bit over the top, that a plane would fly that way, after a bird strike. The scenes are a bit long-winded. The film is only just over 1 hour and 45 minutes long and it could have easily been a bit shorter, by shortening the plane crash, and taken out where Henry Jekyll (Russell Crowe), turns out to be a Jekyll and Hyde character, this is just silly and unnecessary

There is an amusing part in the morgue, it seems being cursed, can have its advantages, you may want to find clothes quickly though and despite the illusions, living is better than being dead.

Although it seems that the Mummy, spends most of the film chained up, because this is a relatively short film, compared to other action films, it is not as long as I first thought when I see it first time round, she still causes havoc and death where ever she shows up.

The special effects and the makeup are well done throughout the film.

The film shows us, that archaeology, can be dangerous, to be careful what you separate and bury in 2 different places and if you think something is safely held down, something could be invented to help bring it to the surface, in this case a soldier with a gun and a precision gun shot.

Overall I had to see this film twice before I understood it completely and compared to the 1999 one, this more modern one, seems to be trying to be more of a block-buster version.